

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Cinematography
Gordon Willis shoots NYC like a cathedral of longing.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it could cut through Bergman.
Score
Rhapsody in Blue: because subtlety is for cowards.

Director
Woody Allen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Woody Allen was so unhappy with the film he offered to direct another for free if United Artists shelved it. They refused.
The black-and-white was Allen's tribute to his idol Ingmar Bergman, but cinematographer Gordon Willis fought him—then created one of cinema's most gorgeous urban portraits anyway.